Darwin Login screen on boot. What to do?

After updating a PowerMac G4/867 QuickSilver to Mac OS X 10.4.7, the machine restarted once just fine, then restarted and dropped me in a Darwin Login screen.
The user typed in his name and password. I typed "exit" to kick out of Darwin and try to continue booting. It seemed to work for a while, then came back to the Darwin login screen.
Is there some trick to get out of this, or an Apple Support article on the topic? My searches haven't turned up anything useful.

Hi, Lithmac.
1. If you are seeing"To continue booting, type 'mac-boot' and press return"see: "To continue booting, type 'mac-boot' and press return" Message.
2. If you seeing a Darwin login prompt such as the following:Darwin/BSD (your_name-computer) (Console)
login:the following steps may sort this out:
(1) Start up the computer in Single-User Mode.
(2) Type the following, exactly as written:
mount -uw /
and press Return. Note there is a single space after mount and after -uw
(3) Type the following, exactly as written:
mv /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist preferences2.old
and press Return. Note there is a single space after mv and after .plist This is one, long command.
(4) Type the following, exactly as written:
reboot
then press Return.
Note that these instructions are based on information from the following two sources:
a. Step 5 of the section "You see an empty, blue screen..." in "Your Mac won't start up in Mac OS X."
b. This hint on Mac OS X Hints.
Good luck!
Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

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[ 152.742] (II) NVIDIA(0): "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration options in Appendix B: X
[ 152.742] (II) NVIDIA(0): Config Options in the README.
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[ 152.830] (II) Loading extension NV-GLX
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[ 152.978] (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
[ 152.978] (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
[ 152.980] (**) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
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[ 152.981] (II) Loading extension XINERAMA
[ 152.981] (II) Loading sub module "dri2"
[ 152.981] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
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[ 152.981] (II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 152.981] compiled for 1.10.4, module version = 1.2.0
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[ 152.981] (II) Initializing built-in extension SHAPE
[ 152.982] (II) Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM
[ 152.982] (II) Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension
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[ 152.982] (II) Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE
[ 152.982] (II) Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE
[ 152.986] (II) Initializing extension GLX
[ 153.413] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power Button (/dev/input/event5)
[ 153.413] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 153.413] (II) LoadModule: "evdev"
[ 153.433] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 153.442] (II) Module evdev: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 153.442] compiled for 1.10.0, module version = 2.6.0
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[ 153.442] ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 12.2
[ 153.442] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[ 153.442] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 153.442] (**) Power Button: always reports core events
[ 153.442] (**) Power Button: Device: "/dev/input/event5"
[ 153.442] (--) Power Button: Found keys
[ 153.442] (II) Power Button: Configuring as keyboard
[ 153.442] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input5/event5"
[ 153.442] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button" (type: KEYBOARD)
[ 153.442] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 153.442] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 153.442] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 153.494] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power Button (/dev/input/event4)
[ 153.494] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 153.494] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[ 153.494] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 153.494] (**) Power Button: always reports core events
[ 153.494] (**) Power Button: Device: "/dev/input/event4"
[ 153.494] (--) Power Button: Found keys
[ 153.494] (II) Power Button: Configuring as keyboard
[ 153.494] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input4/event4"
[ 153.494] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Power Button" (type: KEYBOARD)
[ 153.494] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 153.494] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 153.494] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
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[ 153.501] (**) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 153.501] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub'
[ 153.501] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 153.502] (**) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: always reports core events
[ 153.502] (**) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: Device: "/dev/input/event1"
[ 153.502] (--) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: Found keys
[ 153.502] (II) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: Configuring as keyboard
[ 153.502] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1.1/3-1.1:1.0/input/input1/event1"
[ 153.502] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub" (type: KEYBOARD)
[ 153.502] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 153.502] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 153.502] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 153.504] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub (/dev/input/event2)
[ 153.504] (**) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall"
[ 153.504] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub'
[ 153.504] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[ 153.504] (**) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: always reports core events
[ 153.504] (**) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: Device: "/dev/input/event2"
[ 153.504] (--) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: Found absolute axes
[ 153.504] (--) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: Found keys
[ 153.504] (II) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: Configuring as mouse
[ 153.504] (II) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: Configuring as keyboard
[ 153.504] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1.1/3-1.1:1.1/input/input2/event2"
[ 153.504] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub" (type: KEYBOARD)
[ 153.504] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 153.504] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 153.504] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
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[ 153.505] (**) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[ 153.505] (**) Dell Dell USB Keyboard Hub: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
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[ 153.507] (**) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
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[ 153.507] (--) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
[ 153.507] (--) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: Found relative axes
[ 153.507] (--) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
[ 153.507] (II) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: Configuring as mouse
[ 153.507] (II) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: Adding scrollwheel support
[ 153.507] (**) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[ 153.508] (**) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[ 153.508] (**) Option "config_info" "udev:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-2/3-2:1.0/input/input0/event0"
[ 153.508] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse" (type: MOUSE)
[ 153.508] (II) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: initialized for relative axes.
[ 153.508] (**) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
[ 153.508] (**) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: (accel) acceleration profile 0
[ 153.508] (**) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: (accel) acceleration factor: 2.000
[ 153.508] (**) Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse: (accel) acceleration threshold: 4
[ 153.509] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Kensington Kensington USB/PS2 Wheel Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0)
[ 153.509] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
[ 153.523] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PC Speaker (/dev/input/event3)
[ 153.523] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
Karol wrote:
aa_movingtarget, please edit your post.
When pasting code, please use [ code ] tags https://bbs.archlinux.org/help.php#bbcode
It makes the code more readable and more convenient to scroll through.
Thanks for the tip!
Last edited by aa_movingtarget (2011-10-02 19:51:04)

BPM Composer not show login screen in SOA VM machine for Oracle VirtualBox

Installed Oracle Virtual Box (4.2.4) and installed the SOA_BPM domain appliance (using SOA & BPM Development VM) - not a problem.
When attmpt to access http://localhost:7001/bpm/composer - simply get a blank screen - nothing on it.
When attempt to access bpm/workspace - no problem - get a login screen.
Help - what is happening, how do I get a login screen for http://localhost:7001/bpm/composer
Thanks - Casey

Hi,
I'm not sure how the domain is organised in that vm, but you have to make sure you are using the port-number of the soa_server, not the AdminServer.
Hope this helps...
Cheers,
Vlad

SOA Compposer login screen not show in VirtualBox

Installed Oracle Virtual Box (4.2.4) and installed the SOA_BPM domain appliance (using SOA & BPM Development VM) - not a problem.
When attmpt to access http://localhost:7001/bpm/composer - simply get a blank screen - nothing on it.
When attempt to access bpm/workspace - no problem - get a login screen.
Help - what is happening, how do I get a login screen for bpm/composer
Thanks - Casey
Edited by: Caseyinal on Nov 10, 2012 2:45 PM
Edited by: Caseyinal on Nov 10, 2012 2:45 PM

I think the way you have configured is the culprit, change the port and try. Take a look at the below URL.
Re: URL for process composer of 11g
Thanks,
Vijay

Help?? black login screen

i started up my mac i i have a black login screen?? its a darwin login screen i think cos it does say some thing about a darwin sun something??? help

sorry it says sub system or something but it wont load the desktop???

Yosemite installed on iMac purchased with Mavericks now takes 2 minutes to boot and give the login screen.

Downloaded and installed os x yosemite on iMac that was purchased originally with Mavericks. When power button is pressed I get start up audio tone and then the the black screen with the white apple symbol with the progression bar. The bar moves very slowly two about one third and then the mouse cursor appears and there it stalls for around two minutes. After the wait the login screen appears and it operates normally. This whole process before update would only take maybe 30 seconds.
If I try the web recovery process it will revert back to Mavericks any suggestions on what this might be. I do have an external Mac passport pro external drive that does have time machine enabled and has been there for months.
Thanks

After spending a number of hours with Apple Care personnel I was connected with a supervisor and finally got the iMac to boot up on every attempt and in a reasonable amount of time. Login screen now comes on in 30 to 40 seconds and computer is usable within a total time of 1 minute to 1minute 30 seconds.
Here was the process. Tried to download whole operating system with reinstall from utilities menu at power on and at 7 hours progress bar stalled at one third the way. Reason, time machine external hard drive was still connected during process. Disconnected all external connections except power and tried download again. This time whole operating system downloaded in 15 to 20 minutes. Yosemite installed and rebooted automatically and booted to login screen, signed in then to desktop, but boot took around five minutes. Shutdown and connected all peripherals, i.e.. ext. HD, DVD, printers and tried to start. iMac stalled at 2 minutes into progression bar with white apple symbol before login screen. Removed peripherals and tried again and still stalled and would not boot.
What was done to correct is as follows. Started iMac in Safe Mode, cleared all items in cache from Macintosh HD/Library folder and System /Library folder, system start up items, launch agents, and launch daemons contents cleared, removed printers in system preferences, ran disk utilities verify and repair of disk and disk permissions. Shutdown and removed power from iMac. With no peripherals system then booted normally. Reconnected peripherals while iMac was still on and added printers back to system preferences and all is well.
So it seems only reasonable that the downloading problem was hindered by the time machine external hard drive, to which an Apple rep. agreed and the extremely slow boot up or stalled boot up was caused by items in the start up and launch folders. I will state here that I was using my ISP's anti virus software for the Mac which was in the launch folders and most likely was causing the boot up problems.

How to change the resolution on my Boot & Login Screen, There low resolution ?

Hi guys, Ok the situation I have is my Boot & Login Screen are at a Low resolution something like a 640 X 480, were my Desktop resolution is at 1280 X 1024, at 75 Hz, both of these were right until I updated from OSX 10.5.6 to OSX 10.5.8; from there on I have been getting this low resolution screen, an they are driving me crazy, is there any way to put them back as they were? Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. 73's

Hi, no idea how to cure it, but have noticed that it sometimes corrects itself, or after doing I don't know what... perhaps toggling the Display res a few ties until it "feels" safe about a certain rez???

PowerMac G4 MDD booting into DARWIN/BSD screen.

Hi,
I've been sitting here for the past three days trying to figure out how to fix this problem. My computer keeps booting into the darwin/bsd screen and will not boot into the operating system. Apparently the kernel has a problem. I have tried everything including the "/sbin/fsck -yf" thing. None of it seems to work at all. It just brings me back to this "darwin/bsd screen.
I just found my installation dvd and put it in. Then I held the OPTION+D keys which brought me to the boot drive screen. This screen shows the Main HD symbol and the Mac OS X INSTALL CD icons. But, I am unable to switch over to the Install disc icon to run it. My mouse just doesn't respond at all on this screen, but somehow the keyboard does.
Can someone tell me whats going on???

Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42642
Tried resetting the PMU?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=14449
Might try applesetupdone...
This was Posted by: JoseAranda at September 9, 2006 3:48 AM
"OK, restart your computer, hold down Command-s and type in the following:
/sbin/fsck -fy Enter
Repeat until no errors.
/sbin/mount -uaw Enter
rm /var/db/.applesetupdone Enter
1. The rm command is the remove command which deletes the file.
2. Robert: I'd rename the file via: mv /var/db/.applesetupdone /var/db/.applesetupdone.old
reboot Enter
Once you've done that the computer reboots and it's like the first time you used the machine. Your old accounts are all safe. From there you just change all other account passwords in the account preferences!!
end of posted by: JoseAranda"

MBP running Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.8 cannot get past login screen even in safe boot

Help! I have a Macbook Pro purchased in 2009, running Mac OSX Leopard 10.5.8 which froze while running Adobe Illustrator. On reboot, it won't allow me to go past the login screen. I tried starting up from the disc, running disk verification and repair and repairing disk permissions, and trying to start up in safe boot, all to no avail. When the login screen comes up it gives the name of my hard drive with a (2) after it, which seems strange. Any suggestions short of reinstalling the system software? I don't want to lose my applications/data!

AnointedOne wrote:
My 1 year old MBP running OSX has got more sluggish. The little multicolored spinning timer wheel keeps appearing a lot more now, and I hate it! My MBP takes drastically longer to boot when i turn it on as opposed to when I just got it. My web pages take a long time to load. Can anyone help me? WHat can I do to speed up my MBP. I am a novice mac user. Again my mac is getting slower by the day and i dont know how to increase its overall performance. Is there any simple software that can boost overall performance or will I have to reformat my MBP? I have a 200gb HD with 50 gb free and 4 gb of ram.
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
Launch the Activity Monitor utility. Pull down the list near the top and set it to "All Processes". Click on the "CPU" column heading to put the highest CPU consumers at the top. Also click on the "CPU" tab in the lower part of the window to check the value for "% Idle". If that value is much above zero, check the other categories for signs of resource problems. If nothing there points to a possible problem, launch the Console utility and look for messages that might suggest a problem. If you see messages that you have trouble interpreting, post them here and someone should be able to help.

Win 7/Z580: Black screen on boot up, before login screen?

Win 7/Z580: Black screen on boot up, before login screen?
=======================================
I find some interesting posting in this forum. Thanks for keeping this forum to help windows/Lenovo community. I like to pick up the brain of this forum to resolve the black screen issue. I am not sure, whether it caused by virus. I use Microsoft Security Essentials. I am not able to run this in command prompt.
I started my laptop this morning & login screen showed up. Once I entered my login credentials, I heard the sound that usually plays once a login is successful, but I ended up with a black screen. After this occurred, I had to hold down the power button to manually shut down the computer. Once I started it up again, I was prompted to do a system repair, which eventually ended up with all successful outcomes, but I now have a black screen with a cursor before the login screen now. I have no idea what caused this to happen. My laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad Model Z580 (500 GB HD, 6GB RAM).
I am not able to get into safe mode or any other mode, which all leads to a black screen described above. I am able to use the "Repair Your computer" tools after pressing F8 during booting only . All other options leads to Black screen with cursor in the middle
Last Known Good Configuration leads to same
Enable Low Resolution Video (640x480) leads to same My Z580 is not responding to CTRL+ALT+DEL Windows Logo keys as well.
**** I tried SAFE Mode. It loaded couple of drivers and paused at CLASSPNP.SYS load. It went to Black screen with cursor at center.
I am able to invoke control pannel from Command prompt of working PC by typing control.
Z580 PC is not responding to control from command prompt (under Repair Your computer) either.
Z580 is able to use the "Repair Your computer" tools after pressing F8 during booting .
Under local user login it provided Start Repair option. As I pick this option, I got the following. Problem signature
Startup repair offline
1 - 6.1.7600.16385
2 -
6.1.7600.16385
3 - unknown
4 - 21200332
5 - autofailover
6 -
4
7 - NoRootCause
os v - 6.1.7600.2.1.0.2561
locale id – 1033
Under Admin user login, it provided system recovery options. It is not picking up the recovery point created a while ago.
Windows Memory Diagnostics is not launching and shows a black screen without cursor.
I am able to get into command prompt. I tried the following there.
I am not able to run cmd as admin
I reviewed the past posting of this forum on this subject.
Windows 7 boots to an unresponsive black screen with mouse cursor...
System File Checker: Run sfc /scannow & analyze its logs in Windows 7 / 8
Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service
How to analyze the log file entries that the Microsoft Windows Resource Checker (SFC.exe) program generates in Windows Vista
Force SFC to Run in Windows 7
Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them
SFC /SCANNOW showed up
"Windows Resource Protection could not start the repair service
I did "net start trustedinstaller"
"Windows Resource Protection detected pending repair restart the computer"
I ran repair options using sfc /scannow /offbootdir=x:\ /offwindir=D:\windows
and got "Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them "
I did findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log >sfcdetails.txt I will be glad to attach the zip file that contain CBS.LOG & [SR] tag extract (xxx.txt).
I did not any find ERRORS there, SFC ended with message saying "found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them" . It is misleading. There is no [SR] tag pointing to corrupt files. Does SFC through false positive like this?
I ran chkdsk. ResultsFile verification completed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.
0 unindexed files recovered.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
0 KB in bad sectors.
Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.
It is puzzling me.
Thanks for helping.

I tried these steps 8/7/2015. I ran chkdsk. Results for D:\
File verification completed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)...
Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.
0 unindexed files recovered.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.
0 KB in bad sectors.
Failed to transfer logged messages to the event log with status 50.
Updated on 8/7
============
Here are my HDD config:
Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Status Info
Volume 0 F WDO_Media64 UDF DVD- Healthy
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition Healthy
Volume 2 D Windows7_OS NTFS Partition Healthy
Volume 3 E LENOVO NTFS Partition Healthy
Volume 4 G FAT Removable Healthy
Volume 5 LENOVO_PART NTFS Partition Healthy Hidden
I ran CHKDSK /F /X for C, D, E. All resluted to "Windows has checked the file system and found no problems."
F8 ===> Repair Computer===> Command Prompt ===> Works OK
F8 ===> Repair Computer===> Start up Repair ==> Results into "Startup repair could not detect a problem"
F8 ===> Repair Computer===> System Restore ===> "No restore points has been created on yout computer system drive"
F8 ===> Repair Computer===> System Image Recovery ===> "Windows cannot find a system impage on this computer"
F8 ===> Repair Computer===> windows Memory Diagnostiyics ===> "Black screen with Cursor in the middle"
After getting into Command prompt
I run net user
User accounts for \\
Administrator Guest
The command completed with one or more errors
It did not list other users in my laptop. I do not know why? I tried under F8 ===> Repair Computer===> Command Prompt ===> Works OK
Here is the result:
- Boot with Last Known Good Configuration (F8 menu) ===> Black screen with cursor in the middle
- Restore to a prior date (System Restore) - System Restore ====> Already reported in previous reply
- Try a clean startup Troubleshoot Application Conflicts by Performing a Clean Startup results in
Clean Start up
D:\Windows\System32>runas /user:administrator msconfig
Enter the password for administrator:
Attempting to start msconfig as user "MININT-84TH5FG\administrator" ...
RUNAS ERROR: Unable to run - msconfig
1060: The specified service does not exist as an installed service.
- Try loading defaults in BIOS - F2 ==> f9 ==> f10 ===> Black screen with cursor in the middle
Check if explorer.exe is running and start from CTRL+ALT+DEL (task manager - new task) ===> CTRL+ALT+DEL not responding
Is anybody in this forum point me to fix? Thanks for looking into this issue.

Login screen comes up repeatedly, booting into safe mode by default

Good Morning,
I have an iMac (Lion 10.8) that is having a lot of trouble. I manage an Elementary School's IT fleet. At the end of last year, the computer was booting into Safe Mode by default. Once the system came up, the teacher could use it - but it took so long to boot that she chose not to. The teacher left the school, and I was planning to just format it and reimage. Here is what I have happening.
Boots into safe mode on it's own
Once it's done booting, the login screen shows up - but entering any credentials just gets a grey screen, and the login screen comes right back. Even root. Which means I can't get logged into the computer at all.
Recovery mode will not allow me to erase the drive, says failed and not able to access the drive.
Target mode will also not allow me to erase the drive, nor will it allow me to push over an image. Scanning the drive failed, busy.
Disk repair says unable to repair disk - please format.
These are the things I have tried.
Reset PRAM (three times over the course of troubleshooting)
Replaced the RAM completely
Unplugged 15 seconds trick
Accessing via Target mode - Drive is greyed out, but shows up
Ran FSCK manually, and it completed
Tried to do a netinstall, but the disk does not show up in netboot as an option.
I thought maybe the drive was bad, but considering that it will boot into safe mode eventually (although you can't login), and FSCK completed successfully - I'm just not sure! I just thought I'd pick your brains. I'm usually a Windows \ Linux Administrator, so this Apple business is new to me I'm learning! Although I find them frustrating. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you

I thought maybe the drive was bad, but considering that it will boot into safe mode eventually (although you can't login),
Some part of the disk may be bad while others are good. i/o could be trying multiple times and eventually succeeding.
Ran FSCK manually, and it completed
You run FSCK in single user mode? This is very surprising. FSCK verifies the filesystem is in order. Actual data blocks could be bad. Would be a surprise if no file system blocks were not also bad.
Except for this fact, it seems like a hd problem. Intermediate problem. Heat problem, etc.
Time to try a different hd. See if that works. Could be some other hardware problem. Try external drive/flash drive, etc.
Mac OS X is BSD Unix.

Hi...m using a mac pro quad core.....its not booting up...i can only see the apple logo and a circle loading...could not get into the login screen

hi...m using a mac pro quad core.....its not booting up...i can only see the apple logo and a circle loading...could not get into the login screen...any suggestions please.....m in the middle of a project and now i have got this one
regards,
v.s.bharan

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Do you keep your data backed up?
If not, you should always do so*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
You never know when a hard drive or a directory might go bad. Having a bootable clone is a must.
That link also shows you some tools you can use to recover data.
If you aren't backed up, try buying those tools first, before attempting to repair the directory.
Directory issues can be fixed with these tools*:
http://www.macmaps.com/directoryfaq.html

I have lost my cd's and screen became gray i can not boot what should i do?

Hi all
i have lost my cd's and screen became gray i can not boot what should i do?
i have tried to reset Vram
tried to run safe boot
but nothing happends
i have a macbook pro core 2 duo 2GB ram 160 gb hard disk

Use the computer your on now to download and burn a ISO of PartedMagic to a cd.
In Windows 7 you can right click on the downloaded ISO and click burn to disk, other Windows versions use the free ImgBurn software.
In OS X you can burn the ISO using Disk Utility.
Hook up a external drive to the target Mac.
Stick the PartedMagic disk into the Mac and reboot holding option and c keys (I forget which one works)
Use the first option (default) to load PartedMagic into memory (watch out the disk will eject!)
Once in PartedMagic there is a Mount Drive icon on the right, doubleclick it twice to open two windows (three total) you can now transfer your files after mounting the disks/partitions using the two open file windows.
Unmount the drives before using the "Start" like menu in the lower left corner to quit PartedMagic.
If your Mac works with all this then your in good shape, you just have a hosed operating system and a $29 Snow Leopard install disk (c boot off of it) and a Disk Utility Erase (with Zero Erase preferred) and a reinstall of OSX Snow leopard will do the trick.
If your computer boots off the PartedMagic cd, but you can't find/access the internal drive, then your boot drive is dead and you need to replace it or have someone replace it for you.
If your computer doesn't boot off the PartedMagic cd, then it's likely a serious hardware issue.

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